Kristopher Monroe

Kristopher Monroe lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His fiction has appeared in Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, In the Snake, Defenestration, Weirdyear, and Flesh & Blood, among other places. He's currently at work on a novel which he hopes to finish within a not too ridiculous time frame. He can be found on the interwebs at cultureassassin.com

The dusty ham radio crackled in the darkness as Eli kicked his feet in the air, sitting on the edge of the broken wooden chair his father had thrown out months earlier. Both of Eli’s parents were long asleep as he tried to reach PQ. He huddled down in the small garage all by himself just as he did almost every night since he’d found the abandoned radio buried beneath a pile of old tools and muddy tarp.